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Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire appeared in a joint show at the Pepsi Center on Tuesday night, starting with three songs performed together on stage before playing individual 70-minute sets and then returning for a finale on stage together.

It'll be like a trip down the soft/alt-rock memory lane this summer when Chicago and REO Speedwagon embark on a summer North American tour. The bands have announced a 15-date co-headlining tour that will stop at Colorado's Red Rocks Amphitheatre in August.

By Alicia Wallace, Camera Business Writer Music producer Jim Guercio is selling the remainder of Caribou Ranch near Nederland — including the historic recording studio that hosted artists including Elton John, Chicago, John Lennon, the Beach Boys, U2 and Michael Jackson — for $45 million, according to an online property listing.

The media have painted Billy Corgan broadly in recent years, depicting him as both violently unstable and hilariously egotistical — the archetype of a nut-job musician who has lost touch with his fans and reality.

Red, Black, White, Black. The 2012 Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago's Grant Park is ripe in both color and genre. Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Black Keys, Jack White and Black Sabbath lead the lineup for the Aug.

Reverb is on the ground in Chicago bringing you highlights from this year’s Lollapalooza music festival in Grant Park. Day 2 The best: Death From Above 1979 asked the large mid-day crowd, "Did anybody see us in 2006 at [legendary local club] Empty Bottle?

Chicago -- Every music festival has its undesirable day, and Saturday was that for the Pitchfork Music Festival. Day 2 at Chicago’s Union Park was a slow burning ode to thoughtful singer-songwriters, headliners Fleet Foxes included.

There’s been much hullabaloo made in past weeks about Colorado’s beloved Red Rocks Amphitheatre and its century of concerts. And, deservedly so: Red Rocks is one of the best –- if not the best –- place on the planet to see live music.

Had Creed reunited in 2010 instead of 2009 -- when this pic was shot by Reverb staffer Mateo Leyba, at Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre -- the band would have played to a raging rock crowd at the Comfort Dental Amphitheatre.

[photopress:outside_thom.jpg,full,pp_image] Headliners Radiohead rocked the first night of San Francisco's Outside Lands Festival. Photos by Julio Enriquez. Reverb contributor Julio Enriquez checks in with this report from the Outside Lands Festival, which took place at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park Aug.

[photopress:shackeltons1.jpg,full,pp_image] Mark Redding of the Shackeltons expresses his enthusiasm for Denver's paper-thin air. Photos and text by Matt Schild. It's pretty easy for rockers to live like there's no tomorrow: There's a full menu of bad ideas and poor behavior from which a hell-bent musician can choose.